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Prize of the German Historical Institute London

The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on German history (submitted to a British or Irish university), British history or the history of the British Empire (submitted to a German university), Anglo-German relations, or an Anglo-German comparative topic. The Prize is 1,000 Euros.

To be eligible a thesis must have been submitted to a British, Irish, or German university. Doctoral exams and vivas must have been successfully completed between 1 August 2018 and 31 July 2019. To apply, send one copy of the thesis with

a one-page abstract

examiners’ reports on the thesis

a brief CV

a declaration, if the thesis is on British history or the history of the British Empire, Anglo-German relations, or a comparison between British and German history, that the author will allow it to be considered for publication in one of the Institute’s publication series, and that the work will not be published before the judges have reached a final decision

a supervisor’s reference

to reach the Director of the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ, by 31 July 2019. Applications and theses can also be emailed as a PDF attachment to: prize(ghi)ghil.ac.uk.

The Prize will be presented on the occasion of the Institute's Annual Lecture on 8 November 2019.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 Prize of the German Historical Institute London is Dr Arun Kumar for his dissertation Learning to Dream: Education, Aspiration, and Working Lives in Colonial India (1880s-1940s) submitted at the University of Göttingen.

Previous prize-winners are:

In 2017 Simon Mee for Monetary Mythology. The West German Central Bank and Historical Narratives, 1948-78 and Marcel Thomas for Local Lives, Parallel Histories. Villagers and Everyday Life in the Divided Germany (joint winners).

Benjamin Pope in 2016 for Relationships between Townspeople and Rural Nobles in late medieval Germany. A Study of Nuremberg in the 1440s.

Mahon Murphy in 2015 for Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees Captured by British and Dominion forces from the German Colonies during the First World War submitted to the London School of Economics.

Chris Knowles in 2014 for Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948 submitted to King's College London.

Helen Whatmore in 2013 for On co-existence with a KZ: Bystanders and Concentration Camps in Western Europe 1938-2005 submitted to the University College London.

David Motadel in 2011 for Germany’s Policy towards Islam, 1941-1945 submitted to the University of Cambridge.

Britta Schilling in 2010 for Memory, Myth and Material Culture: Visions of Empire in Postcolonial Germany submitted to the University of Oxford.

Jana Tschurenev in 2009 for Imperial Experiments in Education: Monitorial Schooling in India, 1785-1835 submitted to the Humboldt-Universität Berlin.